Most of us were probably a bit incredulous the first time we heard about the Venus flytrap: There’s such a thing as a carnivorous plant? One that actually can clench its jaw-like protuberance around ...

On certain calm days in North Carolina’s Green Swamp Preserve, the chirps of birds and insects give way to the sound of crackling. Tendrils of blue-gray smoke unfurl in the air, and the ground, ...

Carnivorous plants stir the imagination. You can find the results in science fiction novels ("The Day of the Triffids"), Broadway plays ("Little Shop of Horrors") and in recent research that concludes ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The numbers are in on the count of Venus Flytraps in North Carolina and South Carolina. From May to July, the North Carolina's Natural Heritage Program counted the carnivorous ...

This video breaks down the split-second sequence that allows a Venus flytrap to catch prey with shocking accuracy. Viewers ...

Although my first plant was a coleus, I have to credit my Venus flytrap (Dioneae muscipula) for getting me hooked on gardening. While watching the prehistoric-looking plant eat flies and other wayward ...

BRUNSWICK COUNTY, NC (WECT) - There are pine trees, brush, pine straw, shrubs and bushes as far as the eye can see. What seems to be a vast landscape out in the middle of nowhere is actually a coveted ...

Venus flytraps have fascinated biologists for centuries, however, the molecular underpinnings of their carnivorous lifestyle remain largely unknown. Researchers have now characterized gene expression, ...

Richard Jones saw his first Venus Flytrap when an old man -- well, maybe just old to 7- or 8-year-old Jones -- was selling them in paper cups out of his tailgate in Holden Beach, N.C. Richard Jones ...

Venus’ flytraps can be bought legally at a variety of stores. Fly Trap Farm, a well-known wholesaler in Brunswick County, sells flytraps to small garden centers, greenhouses and botanical gardens in ...

Many flowering plants are in happy, mutually beneficial relationships with animals that suck up sweet nectar from their blooms and, in exchange, carry their pollen to far-off plants, allowing them to ...

San Diego researchers have isolated the biological mechanism that allows Venus flytraps to catch their living animal prey. The information may have applications for humans. Researchers at the Salk ...